[EricH]

I think this should be a poll. Personally, I'd like to see some autonomous awards. Possibly "Most Consistent" and "Coolest Auto Mode" (or something like that.) That way, the teams with good auto modes and bad driver modes get awards. (Not that there are any teams like that...I'm just coming up with an example.) Somewhere along the line, a Rookie Autonomous (for the best rookie in auto mode).

By the way, 190's auto mode in 2004 was really key to their success--50 points easily, plus their opponents couldn't get up unless they were allowed to. We did something similar, but we chose not to hang in auto mode. But yes, cool things can be done without scoring any points immediately, and maybe those should be spotlit somewhere. Hey, maybe if FIRST doesn't do auto awards, the programmers on CD could evaluate videos of cool auto modes in between debugging code and downloading it and writing some more and developing cooler auto modes...

I'm going too far here...or am I?